Last movie you watched......

I was excited to see Inception when it came out and enjoyed it when I did.

And I've thought about it exactly zero times since.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nDdoJX1KxM

 

Wow, that's unfortunate. I was looking forward to seeing that one.

 

Saint Vincent- Grand Torino meets The Karate Kid. A tried and true formula
with a new curmudgeonly neighbor in Bill Murray

 

Nolan swings for the fences, and connects at times.

Inception was masterful, Interstellar was brilliant. Nolan is the best director of our time. He is creative and aggressive with ideas and worlds.

No one else comes close.

 

I'd put PT Anderson, Linklater, Soderbergh, Coens, Wes Anderson and even Lars Von Trier ahead of him. I think Nolan's films are going to age terribly.

 

They're all certainly more pretentious than Nolan. I like Soderboergh quite a bit and can see an argument for him, but I'd put Nolan ahead of the others.

I'm not a fan of the Coens or Wes Anderson at all. I don't think I've seen anything by Von Trier, at least not that I remember.

 

I respectfully disagree with my guy Meatie.
His movies just don't speak to me.
And I agree Anderson is many times the storyteller and technician that Nolan is.
Anderson made Boogie Nights at 27, for God's sake.
Same age as Spielberg was when he made Jaws.

 

Please don't put Boogie Nights in the same breath as Jaws. Boogie Nights may be the most overrated movie I've ever seen (although, to be fair, Heather Graham's tits managed to exceed the hype. Good lord, they are spectacular). And Anderson isn't half the director Spielberg is.

 

Chris Nolan made a gritty melodramatic Batman and an Inception movie with dialogue out of an Ayn Rand novel and the guys who made The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Dazed and Confused and Bernie are the pretentious ones? Disagree.

Wes Anderson and von Trier are pretentious. I just think they happen to be really talented, too.

 

Von Trier's movies are pretentious, and a lot of them are bad.

'Breaking the Waves' and 'Dancer in the Dark' are great, though.

 

Opinions vary.
I don't mind pretension, but I don't want it in a film whose protagonist wears a mask and cape and battles a guy named The Joker for fuk sake.